Need help before I explode :'(

[Dan Crossland]

Are you able to see my photobucket now?

[Norman Black]

Your project settings look fine. Your question about using “use project setting” or setting Best in the render template does not really mean anything in this context given that your project already has Best set.

The Internet 1080 HD setting should be fine for upload. The other setting you had with 50Mbps average and 135 Mbps max is really out of place.

I’ll quote my previous post.
If what you upload (the video) to Youtube does not go blocky or have problems and what you get back does have problems then you are having low bitrate problems.

The real problem is probably that your video does not compress well enough to work at the Youtube encoded bitrates.

I previously suggested some things you can try to improve your situation.

Youtube 1080 bitrates are about 7-8Mbps. This means they re-encode everything you send them to their standard, regardless of what you upload. If you give them(Youtube) a “perfect” video, what you get back is not likely to be perfect due to them re-encoding. You can get the major blockiness you see if the video material is problematic for compression. As stated in previous posts.

Since the encoders in Vegas are not as good as the x264 encoder Youtube uses we typically pad our encoded bitrates a little higher to compensate. The Internet 1080 template is about 50% higher than Youtube bitrates which is most cases should be fine.

[Norman Black]

I forgot one thing. You can reduce the slices encoding parameter to 1. That will/can increase the compression efficiency of you encode from Vegas. Of course, if the encode already looks fine at 4 slices then it probably will not help.